Money, the first episode of a two-part adaptation, attracted 1.12 million viewers and a 5.1% audience share in the 9pm hour. A further 60,000 (0.27%) watched on BBC HD.

The drama, part of BBC2's 1980s season, was 48.5% down on the channel's average audience share in the Sunday 9pm slot over the past three months.

ITV1's An Audience with Michael Bublé comfortably won the 9pm hour, with 5.785 million viewers (26.7%), plus another 212,000 (1%) on ITV1 HD.

The other 9pm shows on the main networks were BBC1's Modern Masters: Dali (2.009 million/9.2%), Channel Five's movie repeat Cradle 2 the Grave (1.363 million/7%) and Channel 4's Dispatches: The Lost Girls of South Africa (897,000/4.3%). Another 116,000 (0.8%) watched an hour later on Channel 4 +1.

Britain's Got Talent, moved back a day because of Saturday's Champions League final on ITV1, dominated Sunday ratings, attracting more than double the audience of any show other than An Audience with Michael Bublé.

The ITV1 talent show drew 9.175 million viewers (41.6%), with a further 263,000 (1.2%) on ITV1 HD, in the 8pm hour.

Britain's Got Talent more than doubled ITV1's average audience share in the Sunday 8pm slot over the past three months.

Channel 4's Come Dine With Me took a ratings hit against Britain's Got Talent, attracting 980,000 viewers (4.4%), with another 404,000 (1.9%) an hour later on Channel 4 +1.

This was 44% off Channel 4's average audience share in the slot over the past three months.

BBC1's Countryfile was also down, attracting 3.972 million viewers (18%) and 87,000 (0.4%) in the 8pm hour. Last week, in a earlier 7.10pm slot, Countryfile drew 5.362 million (24.4%).

Later in the evening, honours were just about even as Alan Yentob and Melvyn Bragg went head to head with arts documentaries.

Bragg's The South Bank Show Revisited: Victoria Wood attracted 1.545 million viewers (11.7%) on ITV1, with another 28,000 (0.2%) on ITV1 HD.

The Stone in Exile: an Imagine Special, in which Yentob told the story of the recording of the Rolling Stones 1972 album Exile on Main Street, drew 1.537 million (11.3%) on BBC1.

Five main terrestrial analogue networks

BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4, Channel Five (available in all UK homes with TV, except Five, which reaches about 95%)